Sundance By Numbers #1

Sundance By Numbers #1

Photo by IndieWIREOver the last few days, I’ve had a lot of conversations with people preparing for Sundance. Since I cover the buying and selling of rights, I noted the players’ activities and have found the following numbers at play.Of the Festival’s 118 feature-length films, representing 29 countries by 40 first-time filmmakers, including 25 in competition which were selected from 3,812 feature-length film submissions composed of 1,943 U.S. and 1,869 international: 26 are directed by women ♀ 22% (up from last year). + 11 are repped by UTA+ 11 have appeared first at IFP+ 9 filmmakers have retained attorneys Donaldson & Callif+ 8 are repped by Submarine+ 7 are repped by CAA+ 7 by Cinetic+ 7 by Kevin Iwashina‘s Preferred Content+ 5 by WME+ 3 are repped by Paradigm+ 3 by attorney George Rush + 3 by attorney Steven Beer of Greenberg Traurig+ 2 by Traction Media+ 2 by Cassian Elwes+ Fox Searchlight and IFC each have 2 films + Gersh, Oscilliscope and ATO each have 1 + Producers’ Reps Ronna Wallace, Jonathan Dana, Ellen Pittleman, and Karol Martesko-Fenster each have 1. + The producers who have no rep as yet and are representing their own films number 22. (Hopefully they have attorneys.)